thank you understand it and then something else. and realized everything. was a big. president barack obama backs the renewal of a ban on assault weapons in the u.s. often the massacre of twenty children at the sandy hook elementary school. the world's top son just to deliver a christmas message outlining his personal aspirations for the year to come as he remains holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london. a proposed new law banning u.s. citizens from adopting russian children gets a second reading in the country's parliament details just ahead for you here on t.v. . online

on screen and now in h.d. international news and comment live from moscow this is. president barack obama has made a move toward stronger gun control in the u.s. the proposal comes after the mass shooting at the sandy hook elementary school the lives of twenty six people including twenty children he voiced support for an initiative to renew an expired ban on assault weapons and the creation of a new law to tighten gun sales regulations. has the details. when you consider the tragic events that unfolded at an elementary school last week in the us it is not surprising that finally u.s. president barack obama is taking a position that would reinstate a ban on assault weapons in america now the last federal assault weapons ban which

expired in two thousand and four prohibited the manufacturing of eighteen specific models of semiautomatic weapons along with the manufacturing of high capacity ammunition magazines that could carry more than ten rounds now according to white house spokesman jay carney obama would also support legislation that closes a so-called gun show loophole that has allowed some weapons to be sold without criminal background checks of the buyers since obama has been president for mass shootings have taken place but until now critics say that obama has skirted the issue of federal gun control last week's massacre at that elementary school in newtown connecticut claimed the lives of twenty innocent children ages between six and seven and also six staff members were killed in the gun control advocates say it's a shame so many lives have been lost before u.s. leaders finally got the ball rolling on legislation in real largest firearms maker

in the u.s. also announced on tuesday that it's being put up for sale by its owner freedom group international is the maker of the bushmaster rifles the weapons thought to have been used in friday's connecticut massacre shares in publicly traded gun makers have been dropping for a third straight day there's also been reports of a large spike in gun sales in recent days because many believe that the federal government will in fact enforce stricter gun control. political analyst believes that the battle to control public access to guns will not be won easily. there is a stronger i'll try to show. believe among many americans. to post . on the right that they certainly should write the constitution under the second amendment to the last rites i believe that those forces guns and that fable or the private or ownership story of guns are local and perhaps to be much improved.

by decent massacre as terrible that's the b.s. because well they are going to argue that the laws the current laws must be upscaled to list you're going to have people who are going to be opposed to the private ownership of guns then they're going to argue about the massacre of a cure and then you're going to locate the amendment of the right to possess up their arms of course they're going to say that law should be strengthened to prevent the mentally unstable to get hold of guns and that would like to know what you think could be done to reduce the number of deadly shootings in the us you can logon to our website r t don't come to take part in our latest poll and so far there is a tiny between those who think the media should be forbidden to overhype the massacres and those who believe that the second amendment prevents any measures to control the guns fewer of you claim harshly the restrictions could help the problem

and even though he puts faith in the increase of security in public places go online to have your say. he has already announced his intentions to run for parliament in australia but what else is on julian assange and his agenda for twenty thirteen well the top whistleblower is set to deliver a christmas message outlining his plans for the year ahead. reports. it's been six months to the day since julian a son's thought refuge behind the doors of the ecuadorian embassy it was a bid to avoid extradition to sweden where he's wanted for sexual assault allegations that he continues to refuse to travel to sweden because if it will be extradited to the u.s. america investigating the wiki leaks website for publishing documents including dossiers on the wars in iraq and afghanistan now despite having twenty four hour round the clock police protection it's been a busy six months that julian assange and we've had him publish

a book we seen concerns over his health we seem to live in a sound addressing world leaders as well as giving a number of personal exclusive interviews to say and of course we've had the ongoing protests and vigils in support of both julian assange and the wiki leaks website and in the next couple of days julian assange is expected to give a christmas address normally the territory of monaco but in this case julian assange would be summing up his own going predicament and outlining his plans for the year ahead now what is set to come remains relatively unknown we've seen the dramas unfolding over the last six months so you can be pretty sure it will be unpredictable it's a lot of rumors a lot of talk at the moment that we could see in twenty thirty chilean a song's running for the australian senate and forming his own wiki leaks political party well those will be the next steps and of course r.t.

is going to be there every step of the way taking you through this ongoing story. moscow says he's doing everything possible to bring about the release of two russians kidnapped in syria on monday that being held for ransom by suspected rebels who also seized an italian citizen and other hostages ukraine in general is for maine's a minutes and hands with a deadline costing on a fifty million dollars price tag of life meanwhile a news crew working for a u.s. channel have escaped after several days in captivity the hostage crisis comes as the fighting intensifies across the country in the capital damascus rebels i'm up to in battles with palestinian militias who support the syrian government some observers blame the violence on foreign meddling terrorist groups. means for financing so does truth park in latin america that it's true the. terrorist groups so that in many other places. they are have tension but financing as always they are terrorists or insurgents the goal of the enemy is that

syria has been divided into many pieces so you won't have a syrian regime are you out there is where you have a kurdish. fortune and you don't have other sections and you don't have all these opposition members fighting against each other for the troll i mean you know that the muslim brotherhood hate goons from around the world all want to impose their own totalitarian system on what's left of the of syria. greece prepares for yet another twenty four hours still as people protest against growing cuts and a disintegrating economy the details just ahead here on all to. wealthy british style it's time to.

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if you just joined us a very warm welcome this is all t. live here in moscow not broadcasting in h.d. russia's state duma is in the second reading of a bill which if possed will prevent u.s. citizens from adopting children from the country the action is said to be part of moscow's response to washington applying sanctions against a list of russians as part of the so-called magnitsky act well for all the details on this let's go live to you got a piskun of who is in central moscow at the kremlin that explain how this proposed law is linked to the case of an excuse. well actually i'm at the state duma right now where the deputies are getting ready to continue reviewing russia's proportionate response as they call it to the magnitsky act just to remind you to give monies give the russian lawyer who was suspected of a large scale tax evasion who died in prison before he could before

a court could make a decision on his eighty's seen by many in the west or especially in the united states as a victim to various violations of human rights in russia recently american lawmakers passed the money act which allows sanctioning russian officials suspected of being connected to violations of human rights this act is seen by many officials in moscow as an anti russian war and while russian lawmakers have been working on this as they call it for a fortunate response to it and besides sanctioning american citizens who are thought to be connected with violations of the rights of russian citizens many deputies are pushing for this draft to also include a general ban of all americans to adopt russian children adoption is a very heavy issue in the relations between moscow and washington due to the so many cases of abuse and sometimes even deaths of russian children adopted by americans like the story of twenty one month year old yackety died after his

adoptive father left in a locked car on a hot day in fact the deputies are proposing for this draft to be named after this boy or another case when an american adoptive mother put her child on a plane back to russia carrying only some underwear and notes although this is causing outrage here in russia but not only the cases themselves but also the a lack of a proper reaction from american authorities to prevent these cases from reoccurring including the lack of heavy jail sentences. what kind of reaction did this law receive from the public in russia. well this draft has become quite a source of debate in russia both in the society and even among the political elite because basically everybody agrees that connected with violations of human rights

especially of children's rights have to be punished but when it comes to introducing this general ban on adoption. this is causing some heated debate we've heard from russia's foreign minister of who spoke against introducing the ban we've also heard earlier from the minister of education for also criticizing what was met with some fierce criticism from some members of parliament who actually said that the minister was more interested in allowing foreigners adopt russian children to develop property moving conditions for them here in the country so this debate is very likely to continue throughout the day while the state is going to continue reviewing this draft you go to thank you very much indeed. live from russia's state duma. ratings agency standard and poor's has raised the credit rating of greece's sovereign debt this comes just hours before

a planned twenty four hour nationwide strike as people continue venting their frustration biting cuts on monday athens received a fresh tranche of funds from the e.u. and the international monetary fund however as one expert says despite the much anticipated cash the greek economy is far from salvation. the fact that the ratings agencies gave a higher rating to the queen than that they're going to be a surprise in the case what happened is that right now the international community be i am not to be in the habs for two hours austerity which makes investors happy but of course makes the people angry and for you to see this going on and people a lot of people getting very upset in greece while the best a community is relatively happy because there's more greater safeguards that their money is going to be returned in the form of money so i think that you're going to continue to see this exactly where eels go up and the people are happier but the investor community is left and then we're going to have work to do the right play

you have more austerity making people more angry and more right at the more protests and more strikes and that investors feeling more secure. in the bombs that they buy in greece even money this crisis is far from over we never solve the basic problem over. the europeans and yet to solve the basic problem that the european. countries are insolvent simply do not have the money to pay back all the money that they have borrowed and because of that that which is incomparable we are going to come to a day of reckoning some point you should become when is that they going to happen and how far will your p.m.c. or crabs be to keep the can down for growth. an independent panel tasked with investigating september's deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi libya has revealed that systematic failures at the state department were behind the security breaches of the mission is sought claimed the

lives of the american ambassador to libya and three other u.s. officials it happened as violent demonstrations over an anti islamic film made in america began sweeping across the arab world initially it was believed the attack of the ballot out of a similar protest however this report suggests the incident wasn't preceded by any protests it appears to be a terrorist attack. intelligence information claim. from forty two to decide whether dominique strauss kahn will stand trial on charges the former international monetary fund chief allegedly took part in luxury sex parties with prostitutes which the defense denies says the authorities are trying to criminalize last it's the last inquiry against the sixty three year old who's already fought off several sex crimes charges. with medical check ups and final training behind them the new crew of the international space station is ready to head for the stars a russian an american and a canadian are set for what's proving to be

a full departure is up to tom button with more. a farewell on guitar music was in the air as the next crews the international space station said their last goodbyes to earth. it will be in the cockpit too says the i assesses next commander chris hadfield and actually when we're sitting on the launch pad inside our soyuz there will be music playing both to to warm up our bodies and to warm our hearts while the music will be a comfort there was months of work ahead on the station preparing a launch is like a technical and scientific symphony with no rocket crew and an all history of engineers around them are churning up for the main overture. for the families this time is as nerve wracking as it is exciting chris hadfield's wife says she'll still feel connected to him when he's up there again for music but like really if you're here if you like to be playing so much music that you are

a bit like me and you were right and life you know they were sure that we'll play lots of the surveys that yes there's a spec corner on the i assessed for a trustee guitar. but being away from home at that most special time christmas surely that is hard to cope when i'm out in space i start to feel homesick i'll probably do what i do on earth and that is to. to open up my guitar and. play songs that are important to me we shouldn't feel too sorry for chris thomas as well as enjoying music they'll be able to look down on earth as we celebrate so it's seasons greetings from our sweet sounding spaceman merry christmas. happy new year to. tom watson our t. baikonur. will be broadcasting the launch live here

and also online so don't miss liftoff but twelve minutes. past midday g.m.t. and you can learn more about the mission at r.t. dot com. also there are a lot of revealed that the british spend over one hundred thirty million pounds a year on phone calls to find out how much tax they have to pay. thousands of lost on the presidential palace in cairo as egypt's opposition continues to protest against the proposed constitution which is backed by the president and the muslim brotherhood the document has been criticized for being overtly islamist which many fear could limit people's social freedoms whether the draft will prevail has been decided in a two stage referendum which kicked off last saturday delivery results show most egyptians had voted in favor of the new constitution but opponents claim the poll was tainted by mass irregularities the country's justice ministries ordered an investigation into allegations of widespread vote rigging political analyst i want

to show we believe that we are going to vision over the constitution is only deepening the wide cracks in egyptian society. there is a very strong division within egypt today between egyptians who are more of a group of egyptians that are more towards an islamic system a predominantly islamic religious hardline system in egypt and another group that has also a lot of supporters if you judge that wants to have a democratic or more of a secular. president morsi is saying that he's presenting a democracy that he wants to lead the country and he wants to be that evolution towards a more democratic system but his actions so far have not proven to be. compliant with this well it's leading to more tension you had a lot of violence in the past week in the streets clashes in the streets a country's economy is not picking up food is getting poorer and poorer the whole

system is collapsing the government the public and mr. the infrastructure of the country is really suffering from the shortages and the violence is spreading to other parts of the country and i think that this shows that mr morsi and his administration do not have the potential to to provide the stability that is needed and on the other hand they do not answer the aspiration of the groups of people who took to the streets in the past and who are able to overthrow the previous regime so he's acting in a way that is very similar to the previous regime in fact. well that brings up to date for the moment talk about with the news team with more news for in about thirty five minutes from now meantime peter labelling his guess pulled no punches in the latest debate on cross talk just ahead after this short break.

in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters in ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the clients computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet orthopedic of real is there of in the nine hundred fifty s. these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them apart therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients shattered bones and in many cases their shattered lives with the main goal when professing result of design his first frame using bicycle parts sixty years later season velshi is increasingly being used to

help people what eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebody is alive both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to the result of center now days seeking surgery focus magic reasons most of them and and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to a man's pride some of the first patients return to us with a leg like the meal quest to meet his fifteen centimeters to. we still want to surgery because panos tool than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their laws fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries a band in many countries and even the out there prohibitively expensive in russia

the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states financial considerations were one of the reasons they brought this washington state native to western siberia his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the others in america average is one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty. eight centimeters would have brought me right to every one of the average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think it is like expecting to be taller just before the operation most mad a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite endearing yet he still went ahead with the surgery adding seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. for an hour or so what

a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. think. lowing welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle there is no greater gift than the gift of giving as the u.s. deals with his grave fiscal woes should tax cuts below to reve into nine to nonprofits and charities particularly at a time when the list advantaged need all the help they can get or is this a false debate the real problem is gross income inequality. not the politics of charities i'm joined by richard land in nashville he is the

president of the southern baptist convention's ethics and religious liberty commission in new york we have stephen pimp ere he is a professor at columbia university and in bloomington we cross to leslie when koski he is a professor at indiana university school of public and environmental affairs are a gentleman cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want richard if i go to you first in nashville of the fiscal cliff is looming and everyone has to pay including ending tax cuts and this is going to hurt charities but everyone has to pay how do you feel about that. well i'm all for capping deductions at a reasonable level and clearly part of fixing the fiscal cliff is going to have to be government reductions in spending and increased revenue but i don't think that that indian or capping charitable deductions is a wise move for over one hundred years now america has been doing this and we've discovered that americans give a lot more when they are given

a charitable contribution for doing so and the estimates are that for every dollar in tax relief that a person gets it's three dollars of advantage to the community and to the economy there's no other government program that's a three to one advantage and ten percent of our workforce ten percent of our workforce work for another for a nonprofit charitable organizations religious and nonreligious seems to me to be penny wise and pound foolish to cap the charitable deduction it's different than all other deductions ok it's different than all of the deduction stephen where you come in on that and i was going to stephen first go ahead well i'm i mean i think that part of the problem is in some ways the premise of the question is wrong that the fiscal cliff really isn't a cliff it's more like a curb it's more like announced there any crisis on austerity bomb some people have referred to it doesn't necessarily require that there be cut certainly there's no urgent need for cut i mean part of the problem.